Contributed LEARNING A SKILL — Junior Isaac Wukelic, a student at Indian Creek High School, participates in the carpentry program at Jefferson County Joint Vocational School.

BLOOMINGDALE — The carpentry program at Jefferson County Joint Vocational School is building the foundation for a successful future one student at a time.

Instructor Dave Lucas, who is in his fifth year at the JVS, and aide Mark Starcher work with 28 juniors and seniors, guiding them through the process of measuring, cutting, nailing and transforming boards to projects small and large. Since its inception, the program has helped establish more than a half-dozen houses in the adjacent Breezewood Subdivision in addition to modular homes on the campus. Students are working on the fourth modular by building it from the

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